diff --git a/package/libid3tag/0001-configure-automake-foreign.patch b/package/libid3tag/0001-configure-automake-foreign.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8521d559f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libid3tag/0001-configure-automake-foreign.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+configure: don't require GNU-specific files when running automake
+
+Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
+
+diff -durN libid3tag-0.15.1b.orig/configure.ac libid3tag-0.15.1b/configure.ac
+--- libid3tag-0.15.1b.orig/configure.ac	2004-01-24 00:22:46.000000000 +0100
++++ libid3tag-0.15.1b/configure.ac	2018-11-25 15:31:04.184342212 +0100
+@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
+ 
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([id3tag.h])
+ 
+-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
++AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+ 
+ AM_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
+ 
diff --git a/package/libid3tag/libid3tag.mk b/package/libid3tag/libid3tag.mk
index 951ae09c77..402e154ae1 100644
--- a/package/libid3tag/libid3tag.mk
+++ b/package/libid3tag/libid3tag.mk
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ LIBID3TAG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 LIBID3TAG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYRIGHT
 LIBID3TAG_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBID3TAG_DEPENDENCIES = zlib
-LIBID3TAG_LIBTOOL_PATCH = NO
+
+# Force autoreconf to be able to use a more recent libtool script, that
+# is able to properly behave in the face of a missing C++ compiler.
+LIBID3TAG_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))